Performance evaluation of power-operated reapers for harvesting rice at farmers’ field

Authors

  • Md Ashraful Alam Farm Machinery and Post-harvest Technology Division, Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, Gazipur
  • Anwar Hossen Farm Machinery and Post-harvest Technology Division, Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, Gazipur
  • AKM Saiful Islam Farm Machinery and Post-harvest Technology Division, Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, Gazipur
  • Monjurul Alam Department of Farm Power and Machinery, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-22

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3329/jbau.v16i1.36495

Keywords:

Reaper, paddy, field capacity, field efficiency

Abstract

Harvesting is one of the major labor intensive works in rice cultivation. Appropriate harvesting machinery is urgently needed to reduce labor and production costs. Production cost of rice becomes high due to labor shortage and high wage rate during harvesting time. Techno-economic performance of Korean self-propelled reaper (KR), China self-propelled reaper (CR) and BRRI reaper (BR) were evaluated in order to identify the field constrains and problems of the reapers at Mithapukur of Rangpur, Bangladesh during Aman season of 2013. The actual field capacities of the KR, CR and BR were found 0.18, 0.17 and 0.15 ha h–1with the corresponding field efficiency of 55, 68 and 56%, respectively. The variation of field capacity among the models was due to turning time losses, weight of the reaper and operator’s skill. The fuel consumption of the reapers was 4.11, 2.61 and 8.39 l ha–1 for KR, CR and BR, respectively. The shattering loss of paddy harvesting was 1.66, 1.50 and 1.45% for KR, CR and BR, respectively. The break-even area of the reapers was 9.15, 7.82 and 8.43 ha yr-1 for KR, CR and BR, respectively. It is evident that the reaper could be used successfully as labor saving and user friendly technology to eliminate post-harvest problems in Bangladesh.

J. Bangladesh Agril. Univ. 16(1): 144-150, April 2018

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Published

2018-04-30

How to Cite

Alam, M. A., Hossen, A., Islam, A. S., & Alam, M. (2018). Performance evaluation of power-operated reapers for harvesting rice at farmers’ field. Journal of the Bangladesh Agricultural University, 16(1), 144–150. https://doi.org/10.3329/jbau.v16i1.36495

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 1 (2018)

Section

Agricultural Engineering

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